Hello Julian,

GRUB EFI for riscv64 seems to be missing in the list of targets to keep.

Best regards

Heinrich

Julian Andres Klode <julian.kl...@canonical.com> schrieb am Do., 5. Okt.
2023, 18:40:

> Hi
>
> some of us would like to drop the following grub targets
> as we believe nobody uses them:
>
> * grub-coreboot
> * grub-efi-ia32
> * grub-firmware-qemu
> * grub-uboot
> * grub-xen
>
> Optimally also:
> * grub-efi-arm
>
> As in we would like the targets remaining to be:
>
> * grub-efi-amd64
> * grub-efi-arm64
> * grub-ieee1275     [dropping amd64 one, though; just keep ppc64el]
> * grub-pc
>
> Please let me know if that makes sense, if I missed anything
> (is anyone still using Xen?).
>
> It is most likely that we will just be passing them as exclude
> options to dh_builddeb, but still continue building them as
> debian/rules is complicated and maintaining a delta to actually
> stop building the code is likely more annoying.
>
> Anyhow that's all.
>
> We really should revisit the question of BIOS support for 26.04
> or 28.04. Our grub postinst isn't updating BIOS grub for anyone
> anymore since boothole because stuff can break for BIOS systems
> if you upgrade them so um yeah. BIOS is a risky platform.
>
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